احذر على ليلى عيون الأغيار

واحذر تجنب بين تلك الأخدار

Guard Layla against the eyes of outsiders.

And beware; keep away from among those curtained chambers.

فكم بها من ضيغم وجبار

وربّ سيف منه حتف الأعمار

For how many lions and tyrants are within them!

And many a sword brings lives to their end.

وقف على حكم السبب والآداب

في الحكم لا تبرح ملازم الباب

And abide by the rule of means and proper conduct.

Under the rule, never cease to keep to the door.

ما باطن إلا وظاهر آداب

كذا ورد في حكمهم والأخبار

There is no inward reality without outward proper conduct.

Thus it is related in their maxims and reports.

ظنّ التصوّف جاهل المدارس

ضرب السماع أو لبسه القلانس

One ignorant of the schools thought Sufism meant

playing devotional music, or his wearing of caps,

أو نطقه بالشطح في المجالس

هيهات ما هذا طريق الاخيار

or his uttering ecstatic pronouncements in gatherings.

Far from it! This is not the path of the virtuous.

ان العباده يا ملصة الناس

بغير علم كالبنا بلا أساس

Indeed, worship, O rogues among men,

without knowledge is like a building without a foundation.

لِلّه درّ العارفين الأكياس

عن رق أهواء النفوس أحرار

God bless the discerning gnostics!

Free from bondage to the desires of their souls.

من لا دليله قايف الشريعة

فهو أسير ابليس والطبيعه

Whoever's guide does not follow the tracks of the Sharia

is therefore a captive of Iblis and nature.

وكم خيالات له شنيعه

يظنها أنوار وهي أكدار

And how many hideous imaginings he has!

He takes them for lights, though they are impurities.

يا جاهلاً بالعلم كم تزندق

ليس السماع الحق تركك الحق

O you ignorant of learning, how often you have fallen into heresy!

True spiritual listening is not your abandoning the truth.

ان كان مطلوبك تكن موفق

فاسلك طريق المتقين الأبرار

If it is what you seek, you will be granted success;

so tread the path of the God-fearing and righteous.

يا مدّعي من ربه المواهب

مالك تكلف قلبك المكاسب

O you who claim gifts from your Lord,

why do you burden your heart with earning gains?

تقول أنا مطلوب وأنت طالب

ان الطريقة في الحقيقة أطوار

You say, 'I am sought,' yet you are a seeker.

Indeed, the path is, in truth, a succession of stages.

السعي هو سنته في الطريقه

ثم التوكل حالة الحقيقه

Striving is his customary way on the path;

then reliance on God is the state of reality.

وكم دقيقة دونها دقيقة

يحققها العارفون الاخيار

And many a subtlety has another subtlety before it;

the virtuous gnostics ascertain their truth.

قواعد التحقيق يا ملازم

هو اجتنابك جملت المآثم

The foundations of realization, O steadfast one,

are your avoidance of all sins,

ثم اتباعك للرسول دائم

من ها هنا تثمر علوم الاسرار

then your constant following of the Messenger.

From here, knowledge of the mysteries bears fruit.